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Hampshire College will host filmmaker and artist Rhys Ernst and writer and musician Faith Soloway on Monday, April 6. Ernst and Soloway are part of the creative team for Amazon’s groundbreaking series Transparent, winner of 2015 Golden Globes for best comedy series and best actor (Jeffrey Tambor).

When Abby Grace Drake 93F sees dogs, she doesn’t just see “man’s best friend.” Dogs are “an amazing system to study for evolutionary biology,” Drake says, pointing to their relatively quick evolution as a species and their coexistence with their ancestor, the wolf.

Hampshire College alumna Dana Pollan 80F and her family have always loved cooking and sharing recipes with each other. She and her two sisters—Lori and Tracy—are busy mothers with children to feed, and sometimes get stuck trying to come up with new ideas for dinners.

The Pollan Family Table, a cookbook coauthored by alumna Dana Pollan 80F, her sisters Lori and Tracy, and her mother Corky, was recently featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.